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FRIDAY, OCT. 11, 1920
TWINKLES
In case of a cold we suppose Bishop Cannon would pre
fer any remedy to Smith’s cough drops.
North Carolinians, from general reports, are seeing red
recently from having seen too many Reds.
If the movie producers want to make a talkie that would
b« talkie, why not reproduce a session of Congress, or a
bridge party?
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Next week is State Fair week, and perhaps the weather
Ynaft jprfll cooperate better for the State Fair than he did for
teYtiral County fairs, including the local exposition.
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ffhe people of the "United States were swindled out of six
mm ftollani last year, we read, and then another item in
fottht that the faith healer in Lincoln county has had 3,000
•frffett* tn two yean. Comment is too risky.
¥hfa fa and has been right much of a church week for
Cleveland county with the Kings Mountain Baptists associa
tion gathering at Boiling Springs and with Dr. Plato Dur
ham* one of the South's outstanding ministers, preaching at
Central church here.
HANDLING A. STRIKE IN NEW YORK AND
IN NORTH CAROLINA
MEW Yorkers have been somewhat critical rtf the official
handling of strikes in North Carolina, but apparently
the same methods are used there. In connection with 9
strike of truck drivers and truckmen in New York,
The New York World reported: “Acting Governor
l.elvam announced he was in constant touch with the strike
through A. J. Portner, whom he especially appointed last
\?3el: to aid in settling the dispute.”
Sounds to us very much like a dispatch out of Raleigh
» ‘Mg of how Governor Gardner is in touch with the situa
’•ough Judge Nat Townsend.
OLD-TIMERS HARK BACK TO
DURHAM'S FATHER
QR. PLATO DURHAM, the noted minister conducting
evangelistic services here this week, will likely hear very
little about it yet his return back to the town of his birth has
started the old-timers relating reminiscences of the past,
'particularly about Dr. Durham’s father, Capt. Plato Durham.
Hardly had the coming of the native son, who has made
good in the world, been announced when the old fellows, who
sit on the court square benches in the summer, and in the
sheriffs and register’s offices in the winter, began recalling
just where his father, the Confederate captain, brilliant re
construction lawyer, and old Ku Klux power, lived and died.
In their conversations carried over from day to day, in news
paper serial style, they have related many interesting
stories, all a part of the past—that trying period in the his
tory of the South. They tell of the drive made to rid the
section of members of the old klan, and of the fight Capt.
Durham made to defend them. One fellow, as they tell it,
who fought under Capt. Durham in the bloody conflict and
came home to join the original klan as a measure of protec
tion for his women-folk against the crazed negroes and ras
cally whites, was arrested and ordered to appear in Char
lotte for trial. He lived in Rutherford and having no money
he could hot secure a lawyer. Finally, on the day before the
trial, he came to his old captain with his story. Capt. Dur
ham paid his former follower’s railroad fare to Charlotte, ap
peared for him without cost in the hearing, and cleared him.
“He was true blue, Captain Durham was,” said the teller
of the tale, a descendant of the Rutherford veteran.
“Yessir,” spoke up a listener, one of the old fellows him
self, “and he vras smart as Solomon and as game as a ban
tam rooster."
Those tributes of the old days cannot be improved upon
vith our modern slang. Perhaps Dr. Durham, the minister,
teacher, and orator, has heard those stories, now historical
legends, of his father;,if not, he should.
PSYCHOLOGY AND THOUGHT
IN BASEBALL PLAY
VT/HEN this is read it is possible but not probable, that one
of the two teams in the World Series, Chicago or Phil
adelphia, may have the title practically cinched. Be that as
it may, this chatter deals with the opening game and base
ball in general.
Right often the professional and business world won
ders at the immense salaries paid baseball managers and
players. The pay chocks of the latter class usually depend
upon their drawing poweiv-just how many fans they can
make click the turnstiles with their dollars. As for the man
agers, that is another matter. Right often one hears the
business world criticise baseball managers’ salaries;, man
agers are paid too much, and so on.
Perhaps so, but the two rival managers in the present
baseball classic offer ample proof that they must exercise as
much, or more, judgment and brtflns in handling their teams
as does the big business man. Psychology, too. plays a big
part. Take that first game in Chicago, which the Athletics
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won 3 to 1. All the dopesters guessed as to who Connie Mack,
the veteran Philadelphia manager, would start on the mound
against the hard-hitting Cubs. Joe McCarthy’s Cubs, sluggers
all, are right-handed hitters and, therefore, considered death
to southpaw pitchers. Connie Mack had only three right
handers to use against them. George Earnshaw, a youngster,
with a remarkable record; old Jack Quinn, who was pitching
base’ball when many of us were keeping our clothes together
with safety pins; and Howard Ehmke, another veteran, who
had been pitching very little of recent weeks. In the left
hand hurling department he had Bob Grove, rated as the
greatest living southpaw, and, perhaps, the greatest of all
left-handers. As the day of the opening game approached
the dopesters, sport writers, and baseball experts began to
guess just who the aging Philadelphia manager would pitch.
Their first guess was Earnshaw, the young righthander who
led the American league. Their next guess was Grove—per
haps Connie Mack would take a chance on his star southpaw
baffling the righthand Cub hitters. Bight up until the min
ute the game started no one knew who would pitch for Phila
delphia. Then from the bull pen strode Howard Ehmke. Not
a single dopester, including the radio announcers, the sport
writers, and thousands of fans, had guessed that Ehmke
would ever start. Some of them argued, just as the game,
which was played in Chicago, and for that reason used Ehmke
so as to have his leading hurlers for a reserve for the remain
ing games. Yet Connie Mack’s psychology was only logical
reasoning. It was only baseball judgment that he should use
a righthander. He had only three—Earnshaw, Ehmke, and
Quinn. Earnshaw was a youngster as major league baseball
experience goes, and the first game of a World Series affair
is the most trying. It is then that the nerves of the young
fellows snap and they “blow up.” Earnshaw might have
won; he has the stuff, but his youth and his lack of experi
ence would have handicapped him in the opening game. Quinn
the veteran up in forty years, should be held for reserve
strength. Ehmke won the game and very near established
several records while doing so. He never grew excited, a
head cooled by many years of baseball stood the gaff, even
in the dangerous inning when Hack Wilson drove a ball at
him which nearly dropped him stiff. Again Connie Mack’s
psychology won, and it was just as much that as it was
Ehmke’s hurling. Connie knew that an old-timer, near the
end of the trail, would work just as hard to win as would a
youngster, and he would have with him a cool head, made feo
by many years of harrowing baseball experience.
In Joe McCarthy Connie Mack has a rival who rates
near his equal. McCarthy is not so well known as is the
tall Philadelphian, because he has not been managing major
league teams anything like as long. But proper credit must
be given a man who can assemble and control a group of the
greatest and most temperamental stars in baseball, who
could not be controlled as individuals by\^ther managers.
Rogers Hornsby, once a manager himself in a World Series,
could never get along with his teammates and his owners.
Just after winning a pennant for St. Louis, he was cast
adrift. Chicago got him. Next to Hornsby in the St. Louis
lineup is Hack Wilson, the Art Shires trouble-maker of the
National league. A quick-tempered fellow, ready always to
fight and a worry to all managers. In the same lineup is
Kiki (Hazen) Cuyler, the best of the famous Pittsburgh
Pirate team, who was turned locsP to Chicago because of his
temper and his sulkiness, withal a great baseball player and
one of the fastest baserunners in baseball, Cobb not excepted.
Joe McCarthy patched up a team out of the high-hat Horns
by, the garrulous Wilson, the temperamental Cuyler, a few
youngsters, and moved roughshod to a National league pen
nant, He should receive due credit. He had the baseball
ability in his team, but getting it to cooperate was something
a half dozen managers had given up even with only one of
McCarthy’s temperamental stars.
Baseball, if you care to study it, has far more to it than
banging out basehits and striking out batters. In these days
brains are just as much a factor in basebai! success as in
any other business—and baseball has come to be a business,
a member of the firm of Big Business.
Nobody’s
Business
GEE McGEE—
A Congressional Record.
I see by the papers that cons’-es?
Is in session. I ha«R. always hud
a tender feeling for congress nnd
school teachers. Everybody Knows
that congress os a whole won’t Le
able to do any real work for sev
eral week;. Everything will nave
to stand hitched till the various
committees meet and tell the boys
what to do ansoforth.
Now, if I may be permitted to
suggest some form of amusement
and intertainment for the mem
bers who are not engaged in com
mittee or conference work, I would
like to say that a nice little game
of "Mumble-peg" would bring much
Joy to the loafing members of the
house and senate while the cruis
er bill is being drafted behind
closed doors. The entire member
ship can participate In this won
derful game if enough knice can
be borrowed. In all cases, a Dem
ocrat should be partnered with a
Republican till Democrats give out
then a few lame ducks might be
called in from the lobby to splice
out.
Another interesting, game is j
' Thimble.’’ Cole Bleas’e should bo i
able to lend off in this. It do sn'i
require much thoucht to pl-ju d. |
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It Is possible that a thimble coulci
be borrowed from one of the sena
tor's wives (that is, a wife of one
of the senators) if she should hap
pen to know what a thimble is, but
we fear that only Mrs. DePrtest
has ever done any sewing. and
possibly it wouldn’t be nice to ap
proach her on account ol pre
vious disturbances.
"Blind-fold" is another *hing
that might fetch much pleasure.
Tom Heflin would make a dandy
blind-folder. It would not bj ne
cessary to tic a handkerchief over
his eyes. He never sees anything
nohow. It would be nice to pull
this stunt off in the subway (hat
leads from the office buildings t->
the Capitol. There ain’t any post;
or other obstructions to run against
in that passage to knock the out
ter-milk out of a guy’s head.
While the Muscle Shoals recom
mendations are being formulated,
the gentlemen could engage in *,n«
enticing game called “Jack Stones”
at so much per jack. Then tnere’s
"Stink base." That would be a
very becoming form of amusement
for the ex-investigating comm 11tees
to pull off. And “Hop-Scotch.
There never was a better place far
that indulgence than the paved I
back-yard of the law -making build-!
ing, and all they will need is >om«
chalk and a man to do the work
of marking off the scale.
1 certainly hope the representa
tives will take cognizance of my
I recommendations. It is tiresome
| to sit around from day to day
with nothing to do, and these
games will drive dull care away.
We could mention other nice games
such as ' Prog in the Mill Pond ’
and “Handy Over,” but as these !
would require more physical effort 1
it might be a good idea to atick 1
to sitting-down games. The com- j
mittees all ftught to report by Dec
ember 24th.
Henry Ford vs. Booze.
Henry Ford says that he will
stop making automobiles if the
saloon returns. He should do this
by all means, hut he could con
tinue to do a profitable manufac
turing business afterwards by
switching to other lines that the
promiscous sale and use of whiskey
would demand. , x
It is assumed that other car
makers that are less considerate
of the public would not close their
factories, and the car output would
possibly be sufficient to meet the
requirements of the hilarious citi
zenry after Henry withdrew from
the fold of keeping the world on
wheels.
Now If Mr. Ford will let ms talk
a while, I would suggest that he
convert his motor department into
a plant to be used exclusively for
the manufacture of crutches, roll
ing chairs, bandages splits, coffins,
caskets, cement vaults, and other
accessories common to the nee is
of folks who have been in head
on and tail-on collisions, plus a
few side-sweeps and telegraph poles
The chassis factory could shift
to hearses, ambulances, embalming
fluid, wrecking machines. tomb
stones, grave-digging tools, base
ball bats for fighting purposes, cots,
beds. X-ray machines, shrgery saws,
ether, chloroform, and other hos
pital equipment.
Instead of cr Y^ns for his '••ars
shrouds and mourning veils could
get busy turning out brick and
lime and lumber for jails and peni
tentiary construction, and as the
demand would be great for insane
asylums, his spark plug and start
er departments would do v eil in
getting up materials of all kinds
for the erection of suitable build
ings for booze-nuts ansoforth.
And there would’nt be anything
wrong with Henry shaking t"ose
from some of the coin he her 81
ready made > in building and en
dowing a few thousand orphan
ages for the sole use of the chil
dren of mothers and daddies who
got too drunk to ride slow. New
court houses and calabooses wou'd
have to be provided, and at least
5 million extra policemen and
judges would be kept busy with
the drunken masses. The trouble
is not the whiskey itself: It is
the change that has come ever the
people. They don't give a cuss now
adays, and while some folks sav it
i is easy to get spitfire, I’ll admit it
j is easy for some Volks, but hard for
i the majority under the present sys
I tem. Old man Booze has played his
j last tune. Who wants to fool with a
I booze-fighter in any line of bust*
I ness or any strata of society? Hem.
j Ford is right.
The County Club.
Hickory Record.
Catawba county is to be congratu
lated upon the organization of n
county Club. This group of men
banded together solely in the inv
est of progressive civic development,
should become in time an import
ant factor\county affairs and will
undoubtedly'-bring about a market
unification of thought and action.
The county club does for the en
tire county what the civic sliib
does for the town or city. It
fills and long felt need in the mod
ern civilization of America and is
destined to do much good in mould
ing public opinion, unifying coun
ties, causing them to think as a
unit and furnishing a channel for
county-wide opinions.
The purpose of the county club
is to foster the active interest of
every member in the civic, com
mercial. agricultural, and mo-al
welfare of his county.
Notv that the club Is organised
it is necessary that its members
give it whole-hearted support and
take an active interest in ffll its
projects. The Record wishes this
club unbounded success and feels
sure the county will be greatly bene
fitted by its efforts.
Family Minus Hands, Feet.
In the last two generations of a
family in Brazil five members we.e
born without hands or feet, tccord
ing to a report to the Eugenics
Research Committee. Three avu chil
dren, whose father, similarly crip
pled. died recently. One unc.’e, also
deformed, still lives. Biologists say!
that in the family the chrom *sones. I
contained in every living cell, lack
ed the unit responsible for the for
mation of hands and fee%
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